Alma Castro is a member of the Santa Fe City Council in New Mexico, representing District 1. She assumed office on January 1st, 2024. Her current term ends on December of 2027. Alma grew up in Santa Fe, the child of a Salvadoran refugee and working-class songstress. She graduated from Santa Fe High School in 2005, then received her bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College in Ohio. Castro worked as a volunteer for AmeriCorps and a community organizer in Chicago, and she returned to Santa Fe in 2019 to take over her family’s restaurant – Café Castro.